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"I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and

rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I

understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly,

however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me.

I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and

then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and

that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my

handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my

ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the

rose-bushes.